Los Alamos nuclear lab loses more data
As I have said over and over…I just don’t get it…
Los Alamos nuclear lab loses more data
The error-prone Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory has inadvertently released highly classified nuclear weapons material again, this time by e-mail.
This was followed by the theft of a Los Alamos laptop. Both occurred since last October when a crack dealer was found in possession of lab nuclear weapons data on a USB stick.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the U.S.’s three nuclear weapons laboratories. It carries out sensitive national security missions, including helping to ensure that the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is safe, secure and reliable. It has a history of bad classified data handling discipline and is managed by LANS, Los Alamos National Security.
Following the discovery of classified nuclear weapons data on a crack dealer’s USB stick the lab operators were fined $3.3 million by the U.S. Department of Energy. The lab then vowed to stop storing classified data on any removable media.
Full article and source: Network World
